Lynn Davies

Lynn Davies was born in Moncton, New Brunswick. She lived in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, for 16 years and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Honours English from the University of King's College. She now lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick. She's taught creative writing at the University of New Brunswick, through Continuing Education in Halifax and Fredericton, and has taught poetry at the Maritime Writer's Workshop. Lynn attended the Banff Writers' Studio in Alberta and participated in a writing symposium at St. Peter's College in Saskatchewan. She has served on the WFNS and WFNB executive boards.

Lynn now works as a private tutor for children with reading and writing problems, and as an ESL teacher. She also conducts workshops on creative writing and book making for children at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and in schools. Her poetry appeared in journals and anthologies across Canada and has been broadcast on CBC radio. Her first collection of poetry was published in 1999. Her essays, reviews, and freelance pieces have been published in many magazines and journals. She also writes for children, and her new book of poems, Where Sound Pools, was published by Goose Lane Editions in the fall of 2005.

Selected List of Publications

Where Sound Pools. Goose Lane Editions, 2005. ISBN 0-86492-436-4.

"...poems that toggle back and forth between the otherworldly and the matter-of-fact with understated grace and good humour."
- Barb Carey, The Toronto Star, November 20, 2005.

The Bridge That Carries the Road. London, Ontario: Brick Books, 1999. ISBN 1-894078-01-2.
     Nominated for the 1999 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry and the 1999 Gerald Lampert Award.
     Click here for WFNS' description of this book.

"The poems in this volume are spare, elegant and carefully-crafted, resulting in a collection graced by a perfect precision of vision and form."
  - Margo Wheaton. Pottersfield Portfolio, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Spring 2000).

Her poetry has also appeared in the anthologies Coastllines - The Poetry of Atlantic Canada (Fredericton, NB: Goose Lane Editions, 2002; ISBN 0-86492-313-9), New Canadian Poetry (Markham, Ontario: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2000; ISBN 1-55041-605-5), New Life in Dark Seas: Brick Books 25 (London, Ontario: Brick Books, 2000; ISBN 1-894078-10-1), Meltwater (Banff, Alberta: Banff Centre Press, 1999; ISBN 0-920159-55-9) and Words Out There: Women Poets in Atlantic Canada (Lockeport, Nova Scotia: Roseway Publishing Company, 1999; ISBN 1-896496-09-1), and in many journals.

Her children's writing has appeared in the anthologies Canadian Poetry for Canadian Kids (Vancouver, British Columbia: Subway Books Ltd., 2005; ISBN 0-9736675-0-8), The Witness and Other Stories (Scarborough, Ontario: Nelson Canada, 1993; ISBN 017-604293-8), Canadian Children's Annual (Markham, Ontario: Grolier Limited, 1988; ISBN 0-7172-2392-2), and "Crow Toes Quarterly", winter 06/077.

Her essays and non-fiction have appeared in The Reader, Arts Atlantic, Canadian Geographic, Eastern Woods and Waters, Globe and Mail, Nature Canada, and Outdoor Canada.

Awards

Nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award and the Governor General's Award, 1999, for The Bridge That Carries the Road.
Honourable Mention, Sean Ryan Children's Fund poetry competition, 1999, for the poem "Rhubarb".
Banff Writers' Studio scholarship, 1995.
Winner of the Lina Chartrand Poetry Award from Contemporary Verse, 1995, for the poem "The Flamingo".

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